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World Book Day has been celebrated on the first Thursday in March since 1998 in the UK. This year Parliament marked World Book Day  on Tuesday 4 March 2025. As Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Publishing, I was pleased to see that there were many MPs who dropped in to collect the books

As Chair of the APPG on Publishing and in the week of World Book Day, I was able to present some books to Rivers Primary on my visit on 28 February 2025.  The School have invested in a great space for their Library and consulted the children who wanted a campfire so in the centre

By a happy coincidence, I had arranged to visit Rivers Primary Academy which is in partnership with Goldsmith Primary Academy and run by the Windsor Trust on Friday 28 February 2025. And on 24 February 2025 the Government announced the schools who would be named as early adopters of the Breakfast clubs.  Rivers and Goldsmith

The community in Walsall were outraged to learn that the Council planned to relocate the Leather Museum. This information was in the Council’s Budget for 2025-2029. This decision was approved at a Cabinet meeting on 16 October 2024, apparently in contrast to a Cabinet meeting on 17 July 2024 which approved a plan to ‘continue